Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has harvested fresh vegetables from her home garden at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, renewing her call for Nigerians to embrace household gardening as a way to boost food security.
According to NTA on X, the First Lady visited the garden on Monday for another round of harvest from the vegetable plot established two years ago under the Every Home A Garden initiative. The garden continues to thrive, producing spinach, waterleaf, and fluted pumpkin.
She shared part of the harvest with her staff, emphasizing the importance of compassion and generosity.
It could be recalled that Tinubu unveiled the Villa vegetable garden in July 2024 as part of her Renewed Hope Initiative, aimed at encouraging household farming and reducing food costs amid rising prices. The program was launched alongside the Every Home A Garden competition, designed to inspire women and families nationwide to cultivate vegetables at home.
At the launch, she noted that even small household spaces can be used to grow nutritious food, helping families cut feeding expenses. The garden initially featured spinach, waterleaf, bitter leaf, scent leaf, ewedu, okra, and lemongrass, and remains central to her advocacy for healthy living, household farming, and environmental sustainability.
